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quitlapialli.

Headword: 
quitlapialli.
Principal English Translation: 

one who guards things

Attestations from sources in English: 

yz ca quitlapialli y tlatovani quipia ycuezcu yva totome quipia = Here is the one who guards things for the tlatoani, who guards his grain bin and the turkey hens. (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 132–133.